Piracy incidents across... People march during an unsanctioned protest in support of Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in Russia's Far East.
Tens of thousands gathered Saturday to protest the arrest of a regional Russian governor in an eighth consecutive day of anti-Putin unrest.
The protests come after a referendum earlier this month allowing Putin to stay in power for up to 16 more years.
The demonstrations have morphed into a rallying cry against the constitutional change, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“My attitude to Putin is extremely negative,” demonstrator Mikhail Potapenkov, 27, an IT systems administrator, told the Journal.
Residents of the region in Russia’s far east, near the China border, also are angered by rising unemployment and poverty.
But the protests have “become for the most part an occasion for a surge of discontent among citizens.”. »